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Megiddo, descending into the rock-cut water system
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Megiddo, descending into the rock-cut water system
The rock-cut water installation, one of the most impressive finds in Megiddo. The huge rock-cut water system, dug in the Late Israelite / Iron Age period (9th century BC), consists of a shaft 36 m. deep, with stairs leading to a horizontal tunnel 70 m. long and to a spring at the foot of the mound, outside the city walls. Megiddo is cited numerous times in the Bible : Joshua 12:21; 17:11. Judges 1:27; 5:19. 1 Kings 4:12; 9:15. 2 Kings 9:27; 23:29, 30. 1 Chronicles 7:29. 2 Chronicles 35:22. Zechariah 12:11.The tell or mound of Megiddo with its 25 layers of civilization, documents every period of ancient history in the Land of Israel.The Israelite city perished in 732 B.C.E. with the conquest of Assyrian king Tiglath Pileser III.Megiddo, a Unesco World Heritage Site
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